XML 90 R21.htm IDEA: XBRL DOCUMENT
v2.4.0.8

Employee Benefit Plans | 3 Months Ended
--- | ---
Mar. 31, 2014
Employee Benefit Plans | 15. Employee Benefit Plans Mattel and certain of its subsidiaries have qualified and nonqualified retirement plans covering substantially all employees of these companies, which are more fully described in “Note 4 to the Consolidated Financial Statements–Employee Benefit Plans” in its 2013 Annual Report on Form 10-K. A summary of the components of net periodic benefit cost for Mattel’s defined benefit pension plans is as follows:
|  | For the Three Months Ended |
|  | March 31, 2014 |  |  | March 31, 2013 |
|  | (In thousands) |
Service cost |  | $ | 2,597 |  |  | $ | 3,899 |
Interest cost |  |  | 6,941 |  |  |  | 6,630 |
Expected return on plan assets |  |  | (8,003 | ) |  |  | (7,329 | )
Amortization of prior service credit |  |  | (264 | ) |  |  | (126 | )
Recognized actuarial loss |  |  | 3,587 |  |  |  | 5,106 |
|  | $ | 4,858 |  |  | $ | 8,180 |
A summary of the components of net periodic benefit cost for Mattel’s postretirement benefit plans is as follows:
|  | For the Three Months Ended |
|  | March 31, 2014 |  |  | March 31, 2013 |
|  | (In thousands) |
Service cost |  | $ | 20 |  |  | $ | 22 |
Interest cost |  |  | 452 |  |  |  | 338 |
Recognized actuarial loss |  |  | 75 |  |  |  | 40 |
|  | $ | 547 |  |  | $ | 400 |
During the three months ended March 31, 2014, Mattel made cash contributions totaling approximately $1 million and $1 million to its defined benefit pension and postretirement benefit plans, respectively.

X
- Definition The entire disclosure for pension and other postretirement benefits. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 715 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/topic&trid=2235017 + Details
Name: | us-gaap_PensionAndOtherPostretirementBenefitsDisclosureTextBlock
Namespace Prefix: | us-gaap_
Data Type: | nonnum:textBlockItemType
Balance Type: | na
Period Type: | duration